A harmonious relationship

Leo Buscaglia - American author and motivational speaker 

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

Ken Wilber - American philosopher and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a systematic philosophy which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.

I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.

Gay Hendricks - Psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence

Genuine love is between two people who know they are already complete. Genuine love is based on a new paradigm in which both partners are committed to the celebration of each other and their loved ones.

Gay Hendricks - Psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence

True independence is not based on fear. It contains within it an ability to be close to others, coupled with a choice to be free and autonomous.

Gay Hendricks - Psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence

When any problem occurs, you have two choices: you can get upset about it, or you can simply figure out what needs to be done. Getting upset has a seductive quality to it; there is rich drama to be had there. The cost is that there is no happiness to be had. Happiness opens up when you drop the drama and start looking for what needs to be done. Any relationship improves when both people shift from complaints to statements of what they want.

Gay Hendricks - Psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence

There is the relationship between the two of you as real people, and there is the relationship between the two shadows. The shadow is the part of us we do not know about. It is the hidden repository of all our old feelings and patterns. You come into the relationship bringing a shadow with you, as does the other person. If you and the other person do not look into what these shadows contain, your relationship will be between two shadows instead of the two of you as real people.

Joseph Campbell - American professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Eric Butterworth - Best-selling author of 16 books and a prominent leader in the Unity and New Thought movements

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

Marshall B. Rosenberg - American psychologist, mediator, author and teacher

Peace cannot be built on the foundations of fear.

Marci Shimoff - Celebrated transformational leader and motivational expert

When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.

Byron Katie - American speaker and author

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Byron Katie - American speaker and author

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

Viktor Frankl - Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

Marcus Aurelius - Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Esther Hicks - American inspirational speaker and author. She has co-written nine books with her late husband Jerry Hicks, presented numerous workshops on the law of attraction

It is not your job to make something happen—Universal Forces are in place for all of that. Your work is to simply determine what you want.

Seneca - Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist from the Silver Age of Latin literature

If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.

George Burr Leonard - American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.

Nathaniel Branden - Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

Wallace Delois Wattles - American New Thought writer

There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.

Wayne Walter Dyer - American self-help and spiritual author and a motivational speaker

You get what you intend to create by being in harmony with the power of intention, which is responsible for all of creation.

Gregg Krech - Executive Director of the ToDo Institute, a Naikan education and retreat center near Middlebury, Vermont

It soon becomes obvious that I have received more from the world than I’ve given, or could ever return.

Jim Afremow - Sports psychology specialist and licensed professional counselor. He is the founder of Good to Gold Medal, PLLC, a leading sports psychology coaching and consulting practice located in Phoenix, Arizona

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Pierre Hadot - French philosopher and historian of philosophy specializing in ancient philosophy, particularly Neoplatonism

For us, nature’s final accomplishment is contemplation, becoming aware, and a way of living in harmony with nature.

Raymond Charles Barker - Leader and author in the New Thought spiritual movement and, specifically, in Religious Science

You are in God. God is in you. There is no separation, there never was and there never will be.

Raymond Charles Barker - Leader and author in the New Thought spiritual movement and, specifically, in Religious Science

All life is circulation.

Jocelyn K. Glei - Obsessed with how we can find more creativity and meaning in our daily work. She created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and hosts Hurry Slowly, a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down

The world is random and unpredictable, which means that it is close to impossible to outline exactly what your next best move is. But you can explore it—by doing and trying. Just make sure you don’t go all in before you’ve figured out that it works.

Robert Greene - American author known for his books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers: The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Michael Hyatt - American author, podcaster, blogger, speaker, and the CEO and founder of Michael Hyatt & Company. He has written several books about leadership, productivity, and goal setting 

You can’t take care of anyone else unless you first take care of yourself. 

Fred Rogers - American television host, author, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001

Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.

Fred Rogers - American television host, author, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

Carol Dweck - American psychologist. She is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on mindset

A no-effort relationship is a doomed relationship, not a great relationship. It takes work to communicate accurately and it takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs. It doesn’t mean there is no “they lived happily ever after,” but it’s more like “they worked happily ever after.